Youth & Adult Literacy Rates from 2010 to 2018

Samina Issa - Fall 2023

2023-11-29

Introduction

Youth & Adult Literacy Rates Datasets Link

The data is a CSV from Kaggle. This dataset contains data on literacy rates for youth and adults in various regions and countries. It has two csv files.

The dataset can be used to help policy-makers understand where interventions are needed to improve literacy rates

Analysing:

Why Literacy Project?

Growing up, many people in my community, neighborhood and family were not able to read and write. So I wanted to see the literacy rate in recent years and picked it for the project

Library Loading

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Reading in Data

## Rows: 4,955
## Columns: 7
## $ index           <dbl> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, …
## $ Region          <chr> "Central and Southern Asia", "Central and Southern Asi…
## $ Country         <chr> "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanis…
## $ Year            <dbl> 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, …
## $ Age             <chr> "15+", "15+", "15+", "15-24", "15-24", "15-24", "25-64…
## $ Gender          <chr> "female", "male", "total", "female", "male", "total", …
## $ `Literacy rate` <dbl> 0.1761206, 0.4541710, 0.3174112, 0.3211322, 0.6187907,…
## Rows: 202
## Columns: 9
## $ Country                           <chr> "Afghanistan", "Albania", "Algeria",…
## $ Region                            <chr> "SA", "ECA", "MENA", "ECA", "SSA", "…
## $ `Sub-region`                      <chr> NA, "EECA", NA, "WE", "ESA", NA, NA,…
## $ `Least developed countries (LDC)` <chr> "LDC", NA, NA, NA, "LDC", NA, NA, NA…
## $ `Africa sub-regions`              <chr> NA, NA, "Northern Africa", NA, "Sout…
## $ `Africa region`                   <chr> NA, NA, "All", NA, "All", NA, NA, NA…
## $ Total                             <dbl> 43, 98, 81, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Male                              <dbl> 55, 99, 87, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Female                            <dbl> 30, 98, 75, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …

Countries with Higest Literacy rate

Country Name Mean Literacy Rate
Ukraine 0.9997176
Uzbekistan 0.9993926
San Marino 0.9989923
Latvia 0.9988922
Estonia 0.9985737
Lithuania 0.9982271
Kazakhstan 0.9973944
Belarus 0.9973112
Russian Federation 0.9965556
Cuba 0.9963581

Countries with Lowest Literacy rate

Country Name Mean Literacy Rate
Chad 0.2168683
Guinea 0.2585250
Niger 0.2780843
Mali 0.3079387
South Sudan 0.3079577
Sierra Leone 0.3331769
Burkina Faso 0.3341342
Benin 0.3345030
Afghanistan 0.3482135
Central African Republic 0.3705846

Literacy rates of different age groups by year

Mean literacy rates by age group

Progress of a Region’s literacy rate over time

Progress of a Region’s literacy rate over time

Literacy rates by country of Sub-Saharan Africa Region

Literacy rates of countries of Sub-Saharan Africa Region

Country Name Year Mean Literacy Rate
Angola 2014 0.5893386
Benin 2012 0.3007515
Benin 2018 0.3682544
Botswana 2013 0.7754335
Botswana 2014 0.7835083
Burkina Faso 2014 0.3082644
Burkina Faso 2018 0.3600040
Burundi 2014 0.5563772
Burundi 2017 0.6237482
Cabo Verde 2012 0.7628367
Cabo Verde 2015 0.7807446
Cameroon 2010 0.6236712
Cameroon 2018 0.6985600
Central African Republic 2010 0.3700480
Central African Republic 2018 0.3711212
Chad 2015 0.2350208
Chad 2016 0.1987158
Comoros 2012 0.4412852
Comoros 2018 0.5142472
Congo 2011 0.7851824
Congo 2018 0.7940263
Côte d’Ivoire 2012 0.3834444
Côte d’Ivoire 2014 0.3893085
Côte d’Ivoire 2018 0.4249992
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2012 0.7004237
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2016 0.7174853
Equatorial Guinea 2010 0.8722312
Equatorial Guinea 2014 0.8877333
Eritrea 2018 0.6854249
Ethiopia 2017 0.4558305
Gabon 2012 0.7877476
Gabon 2018 0.8155815
Gambia 2013 0.3713684
Gambia 2015 0.4678795
Ghana 2010 0.6560291
Ghana 2018 0.7443546
Guinea 2010 0.2201764
Guinea 2014 0.2968737
Guinea-Bissau 2014 0.4177127
Kenya 2014 0.7449548
Kenya 2018 0.7704741
Lesotho 2014 0.7198910
Liberia 2017 0.4586232
Madagascar 2012 0.6724460
Madagascar 2018 0.7169571
Malawi 2010 0.5753293
Malawi 2014 0.6122242
Malawi 2015 0.5810756
Mali 2010 0.2839180
Mali 2011 0.3054866
Mali 2015 0.3076377
Mali 2018 0.3347124
Mauritania 2017 0.4928255
Mauritius 2011 0.8591000
Mauritius 2012 0.9179926
Mauritius 2013 0.9152595
Mauritius 2014 0.9250782
Mauritius 2015 0.9274093
Mauritius 2016 0.9319142
Mauritius 2018 0.9008270
Mozambique 2015 0.5147851
Mozambique 2017 0.5561689
Namibia 2011 0.8223099
Namibia 2018 0.8928689
Niger 2012 0.2780843
Nigeria 2018 0.5575417
Rwanda 2010 0.6036011
Rwanda 2012 0.6040566
Rwanda 2014 0.6262772
Rwanda 2018 0.6549838
Sao Tome and Principe 2012 0.8226101
Sao Tome and Principe 2018 0.8597367
Senegal 2011 0.4841566
Senegal 2013 0.3974206
Senegal 2017 0.4831935
Seychelles 2010 0.8993191
Seychelles 2018 0.9278901
Sierra Leone 2013 0.2964802
Sierra Leone 2018 0.3698736
South Africa 2010 0.8818771
South Africa 2011 0.8848133
South Africa 2012 0.8924376
South Africa 2014 0.8993371
South Africa 2015 0.9036035
South Africa 2017 0.8132089
South Sudan 2018 0.3079577
Swaziland 2010 0.7613036
Swaziland 2018 0.8215818
Togo 2011 0.5366900
Togo 2015 0.5746865
Uganda 2010 0.6595080
Uganda 2012 0.6395719
Uganda 2018 0.7025420
United Republic of Tanzania 2010 0.6542276
United Republic of Tanzania 2012 0.7156815
United Republic of Tanzania 2015 0.7138682
Zambia 2010 0.7677941
Zambia 2018 0.8167015
Zimbabwe 2011 0.7955812
Zimbabwe 2014 0.8760068

Literacy rates of Year 2011 & 2013 of Sub-Saharan Africa Region

Country Name Year Mean Literacy Rate
Congo 2011 0.7851824
Mali 2011 0.3054866
Mauritius 2011 0.8591000
Namibia 2011 0.8223099
Senegal 2011 0.4841566
South Africa 2011 0.8848133
Togo 2011 0.5366900
Zimbabwe 2011 0.7955812
Country Name Year Mean Literacy Rate
Botswana 2013 0.7754335
Gambia 2013 0.3713684
Mauritius 2013 0.9152595
Senegal 2013 0.3974206
Sierra Leone 2013 0.2964802

Literacy rates of countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia Region

Literacy rates of countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Asia Region

Country Name Year Mean Literacy Rate
Brunei Darussalam 2011 0.8867963
Brunei Darussalam 2018 0.9336902
Cambodia 2014 0.7329373
Cambodia 2015 0.7667038
China 2010 0.9150334
China 2018 0.9506999
China, Macao Special Administrative Region 2011 0.9154869
China, Macao Special Administrative Region 2016 0.9398792
Indonesia 2011 0.8762351
Indonesia 2014 0.9072667
Indonesia 2015 0.9032267
Indonesia 2016 0.9061978
Indonesia 2018 0.9174446
Lao People’s Democratic Republic 2011 0.5440830
Lao People’s Democratic Republic 2015 0.7996727
Malaysia 2010 0.8628319
Malaysia 2016 0.8816744
Mongolia 2010 0.9751818
Mongolia 2018 0.9823008
Myanmar 2016 0.7385578
Philippines 2013 0.9524193
Philippines 2015 0.9745381
Singapore 2010 0.9262641
Singapore 2011 0.9812072
Singapore 2012 0.9793331
Singapore 2013 0.9803722
Singapore 2014 0.9813744
Singapore 2015 0.9503618
Singapore 2016 0.9834127
Singapore 2017 0.9797985
Singapore 2018 0.9808719
Thailand 2010 0.9577023
Thailand 2013 0.9130767
Thailand 2015 0.9125320
Timor-Leste 2010 0.5037682
Timor-Leste 2018 0.5801061
Viet Nam 2018 0.9390292

Male & Female Literacy rate by region

Region Male Female
Central and Southern Asia 0.776 0.660
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia 0.915 0.851
Europe and Northern America 0.986 0.973
Latin America and the Caribbean 0.917 0.897
Northern Africa and Western Asia 0.895 0.807
Oceania 0.921 0.903
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.691 0.545

Countries with High Female Literacy rate

## # A tibble: 201 × 4
##    Country     Male Female Difference
##    <chr>      <dbl>  <dbl>      <dbl>
##  1 Malta         93     96         -3
##  2 Mongolia      98     99         -1
##  3 Seychelles    95     96         -1
##  4 Uruguay       98     99         -1
##  5 Argentina     99     99          0
##  6 Belarus      100    100          0
##  7 Brazil        93     93          0
##  8 Colombia      95     95          0
##  9 Costa Rica    98     98          0
## 10 Honduras      87     87          0
## # ℹ 191 more rows

Countries with Low Female Literacy rate

## # A tibble: 201 × 4
##    Country                   Male Female Difference
##    <chr>                    <dbl>  <dbl>      <dbl>
##  1 Afghanistan                 55     30         25
##  2 Central African Republic    50     26         24
##  3 Benin                       54     31         23
##  4 Nepal                       79     60         19
##  5 Morocco                     83     65         18
##  6 Nigeria                     71     53         18
##  7 Burkina Faso                50     33         17
##  8 Sierra Leone                52     35         17
##  9 India                       82     66         16
## 10 Eritrea                     84     69         15
## # ℹ 191 more rows

Male & Female Literacy rate over time

Summary